THE Biggest Weekend in Dumbo
October 11th, 2006
Photo by epc
250,000 people will be in Dumbo Brooklyn this weekend to attend the 10th annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival from Friday, October 13 to Sunday, October 15. The annual festival is the largest field for experimentation in public space art by emerging artists in the United States. Along with extensive gallery showings, neighborhood wanderers who visit for the festival will discover Project Glow: light installations and sculptures illuminating the waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge Park. This is a unique opportunity for art lovers to wander in and out of the galleries that show hundreds of emerging artists from NYC and around the world. It’s like a neighborhood-wide museum with outdoor installations in the park, on the streets, and in the galleries.
“The best way to experience DUMBO and the festival, of course, is to start with a jaunt across the Brooklyn Bridge for a bird’s-eye view of the tiny neighborhood under the adjacent Manhattan Bridge. Look for the red, white and blue water tower on the roof of a building on your left as you near Brooklyn - that’s approximately where you’re headed. Follow the exit ramp to the left and descend a short flight of stairs to street level. Head downhill, and in two short blocks you’ll see Washington Street, one of the main gallery arteries that weave through DUMBO.” (by Ginger Adams Otis)
“Extra this year: new international programs featuring artists from Beirut, Mexico City and Seoul plus special live video/music event by renowned Mexican media artists, Arcangel Constantini and Manrico Montero. In addition, Fred Brehm, takes visitors on a nostalgia trip, with a compilation of archival footage from the past festivals.
Streets, lobbies, elevators, loading docks, facades, under the Manhattan Bridge, storefronts, sidewalks, parks, trees, grass, billboards, rooftops, sky, corridors, walls, water, riverbank, windows; in fact, everywhere and anywhere in DUMBO: a multitude of site-responsive projects by a rising generation of visual artists: pro-situ art performance trio, TRYST, stage Assisted Street Crossings and Line, a monumental street happening that accentuates the formal aspects of mass collaboration.” (from Courier Life)
Some links and articles about the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival:
- dumboartscenter.org, organizer of the 10th annual art under the bridge festival
- Brooklyn’s edgy DUMBO art scene
- 30 Blocks of DUMBO Done Over With Artistic Flair, courierlife.net
- Down-under art scene far from out, Contra Costa Times
- October “Art Fair of the Month” Selections, Art Fairs International Magazine
- Brooklyn’s edgy DUMBO art scene, Lonely Planet: Brooklyn
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October 11th, 2006 at 4:10 pm Rate:
The event sounds great but 250,000 people is just overwhelming to me considering our small neighborhood.
October 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pm Rate:
A quarter million people is a lot of people. But if it’s spread out over three days and throughout the galleries, it might seem less. Aren’t there 400,000 people crammed into Times Square on New Year’s Eve? Who’s going to clean up the garbage left behind?
October 11th, 2006 at 7:28 pm Rate:
Where i can get information about the artists from beirut ?
October 12th, 2006 at 10:55 am Rate:
So many studio’s I want to visit… looking forward to it. Sounds like it will be awesome… minus the crowds.
October 14th, 2006 at 1:41 pm Rate:
Dumbo Inprovement District is kindly taking care of sanitation, street-cleaning and garbage pick-up.
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